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Colobothea naevia

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ14836738
Source-derived summary

Colobothea naevia is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1865. It is known from Brazil and Ecuador.

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“Colobothea naevia” enters the record as species of beetle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Colobothea, naevia and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1865—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Colobothea, naevia and species.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q14836738. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1865.

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This entry incorporates text from Colobothea naevia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.